ChildMortality

Teen birth rates are down, but more older women are having babies. Credit: Getty Images
Americans had fewer babies in 2008, but more of them were delivered by cesarean section -- up to nearly a third, and more of them were born to older...A survey also found that the the number of women between 40 and 49 having babies went up.

Some 4 million children -- who might not have survived childhood had they the misfortune of being born about 10 years earlier -- will not die this year.
Worldwide death rates among children younger than 5 dropped about 2 percent between 1990 and...